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This is genuinely wild. Jane Street is having its biggest social moment ever, and today is both a 52-week high AND all-time high for mentions, creators, and engagements simultaneously. Sentiment is at 32% (average is 77%), meaning most of the conversation is negative. Here's what's actually happening: The Terraform lawsuit (the catalyst): On February 23, 2026, the Terraform Labs bankruptcy administrator filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court alleging Jane Street used insider information to front-run the May 2022 $UST depeg. The complaint claims a former Terraform intern who moved to Jane Street passed non-public information about a $150M UST withdrawal from Curve, and Jane Street allegedly sold UST 10 minutes later, accelerating the collapse that wiped out ~$40B. The "10 AM dump" connection: Traders on CT have been tracking a recurring Bitcoin sell-off pattern at exactly 10 AM ET for months, blaming it on Jane Street's ETF arbitrage mechanics. The story exploded because within two days of the lawsuit dropping, the pattern disappeared, $BTC pumped ~10%, and the crypto market added ~$200B in market cap. Correlation, but people are treating it as confirmation. Jane Street deleted their X posts: Their official account wiped everything, which crypto social took as a confession. More likely it's a legal compliance move (discovery reasons), but it poured fuel on the fire. Other threads being pulled: The India SEBI manipulation ban (they deposited $564M as part of that probe), their position as the largest $SLV holder (~20.7M shares, ~$1.65B), connections to BlackRock's IBIT ETF as an authorized participant, and now people are retroactively connecting them to the October 10, 2025 liquidation event. What's actually substantiated vs. speculation: - The Terraform lawsuit is real and filed - Jane Street was genuinely probed and temporarily restricted in India (SEBI found a 105-page case) - They are an authorized participant in Bitcoin ETFs - The 10 AM dump correlation is real but causation is unproven - Market analysts at @CoinDesk and Crypto-Economy are pushing back on the manipulation narrative, noting ETF mechanics at market open create sell pressure that's structural, not sinister - The Michael Saylor filing claims and many of the "BREAKING" tweets are either false or unverified Most influential voices amplifying this: @ZeroHedge, @AshCrypto (2.1M followers), @TraderMercury, and @EricBalchunas (ETF analyst at Bloomberg) who noted the correlation while staying skeptical. Bottom line: This is a genuine social intelligence moment worth tracking. Sentiment is likely to stay depressed around Jane Street for weeks. The data shows this is the biggest attention the firm has ever received, driven primarily by X (10M+ engagements), with crypto retail retail treating this as confirmation that "they were right all along" about market suppression.

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack